{"id":664762,"date":"2025-12-31T13:30:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T13:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/664762\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T13:30:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T13:30:19","slug":"dave-pearson-reveals-his-dancer-of-the-year-in-public-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/664762\/","title":{"rendered":"Dave Pearson reveals his dancer of the year in public poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The winning image was taken on the Shambles in York and features a dancer performing in the historic street.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The picture was selected from a shortlist of 40 images chosen by photographer Dave Pearson, from Kirkbymoorside, to represent his work from the past year.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  More than 4,500 public votes were cast, with the Shambles image emerging as the overall favourite.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The dancer pictured is Jasmine, one of the photographer\u2019s ambassadors who regularly works with him on creative projects.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The image was created during a nighttime photoshoot in York, combining movement with the character of the city.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Dave Pearson, who works under the name Robert David Photographer, said the response to the public vote took him by surprise.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cI honestly didn\u2019t expect it to take off the way it did,\u201d he said.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cPeople really got behind it, shared it, and voted. To have an image of a dancer taken on the Shambles resonate with so many people is lovely.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;The photograph captures a moment of performance set against one of York\u2019s most recognisable locations, blending dance and street photography in a way that connected with voters.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The dancer pictured is Jasmine, one of Robert\u2019s ambassadors who dances with Sabatino Performing Arts Academy in Hull. Jasmine said: \u201cI am delighted to have won Post Of the Year 2025! I absolutely loved creating this image and several others on my Christmas photoshoot in York. Dave is honestly the best photographer out there and creates such an easy atmosphere during shoots, I also love being a Robert David Photographer Ambassador. Thank you to everyone who voted for me I am again very grateful.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  For more information on Robert&#8217;s work go to www.robertdavid.photo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The winning image was taken on the Shambles in York and features a dancer performing in the historic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":664763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3939],"tags":[4021,4020,4022,77,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-664762","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-design","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115814427674371863","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=664762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/664763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}